Public Men and Virtuous Women: The Gendered Languages of Religion and Politics in Upper Canada, 1791-1850

by Cecilia Morgan

Book Overview

Gendered images and symbols were of central importance the public debate about loyalty, a political conflict, and religious participation in early Ontario. Drawing on a wide range of international scholarship in feminist theory, women's and gender history, and cultural studies, Cecilia Morgan analyses political and religious languages in the Upper Canadian press, both secular and religious, and other material published in the colony from the 1790s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802076718
• ISBN13: 9780802076717
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher